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Definitely needs a 655_7 Hollowed-out book. $2 oabt oab.lib.utah.edu/artist_book_...

Is this mass manufactured or is it a unique book object?

Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032 | Other at Yale University Apply for Librarian & Executive Director of the Lewis Walpole Library job with Yale University in Farmington, Connecticut, 06032. Other at Yale University

JOB ALERT 📜📚

Librarian & executive director of Yale’s Lewis Walpole Library (Farmington, CT)

•Research center for 18th-century Britain
•You’d report to the fabulous Michelle Light

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Director and Curator, Special Collections and Archives - Middlebury College Reporting to the Dean of the Library, the Director and Curator of Special Collections provides leadership, vision, and budget oversight for Middlebury’s special collections, including its rare book an...

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Who wants to be director & curator of special collections & archives at Middlebury College (Vermont!) — & work for a wonderful boss (& one of my favorite people), Rebekah Irwin?

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Two people analyze a binder of slides. Text reads: New ways of working to protect cultural heritage. Read full story getty.edu/news

Archivists 🤝 conservators

Getty is working to bring these two historically siloed fields together to enrich collaboration and solve problems. gty.art/4tI2DIX

👆🧵👇 🐑 🐑 Sheep disease evidence retrieved from parchment!

Yes, I love it. Little me would have been so happy.

As someone with an unusual name, this disappointment feels like every tourist location gift shop visit when I was growing up

My letter is sold out 😭

I’m decorating my work cubicle with prints featuring the first letter of my name, and one of these blotters would have been nice to have

It’s unclear to me whether my former place of work is open or not. I don’t miss that lack of clarity/level of complexity.

Thankful for another WFH day. I was not looking forward to commuting.

A sign in page for WorldCat (search.worldcat.org). The text reads: Are you ready to unleash a world of knowledge and discovery? Sign in to WorldCat and unlock a treasure trove of library holdings, favorite your go-to libraries, and curate lists that fuel your curiosity.

What a shame that WorldCat now requires users to log in before they can interact with records. I like to send people to WorldCat when I reference a book, so they can find it at their local library. Unfortunately, Amazon doesn’t require a login—but now WC does.

I understand the thinking behind it, but wow, that looks weird. Also, I can see that accomplishing the opposite of what is intended.

Escape Pod sensory deprivation tanks look scary and don’t have fancy features, but they are the best for shutting out the world and just floating.

Float Boston is getting rid of my favorite tank. I wish that I lived in a space where I could buy it for personal use.

It’s so common to come across the assertion that books were luxury objects exclusively for the elite in the Middle Ages that I want to guest curate a massive exhibition called “Meh-nuscripts: Books for the Many,” which features just workaday or unremarkable objects.

A vintage Mexican tile wall with green foliage.

Hotel Rosita, Puerto Vallarta. MX.

It’s usually an onsite day for me, so I am happy not to go in. That’s the one good thing about these Sunday-Monday storms.

WFH day isn’t the same as an old fashioned snow day, but I am still happy to get the official announcement.

I stayed up most of last night watching this paranormal Twitch stream, and it was magical to reach this point in the stream 🌄

Happy milestone birthday!

Tiled stair risers on a turning staircase with a magenta wall in a Puerto Vallarta apartment building.

Out and about in Puerto Vallarta.

I love the reflection question for the How We Be Free Joker cards (which are illustrated with typefounder’s cuts from fugitive slave ads): “What record of resistance am I leaving for future generations?”

Does your Friday need a burst of inspiration? Try @arnicas.bsky.social's 'Image Prompt Inspiration: 3 random nouns and CC images from Flickr (British Library scans as default)' (yay for open access images!)

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I’m approaching 30 years, and I still get confused.

A facet of my ongoing "what if we took digital collection development with the appraisal/curatorial/total-cost-of-stewardship model we supposedly apply elsewhere instead of competing for the "most thingies put online by any cultural heritage institution ever" awards"

I will share more of our findings as we get into data analysis, but we're reviewing energy usage & climate impact metrics for our cloud-hosted digital collections at MPOW, and the results have been really misaligned with what our expectations were. I strongly encourage other folks to do this.

The Cyberattack That Exposed The Fragility Of Digital Heritage Saturday 28 October 2023 is a date that will live long in the memory of staff at the British Library. As they arrived for work that day, they encountered

On ransomware and under-funded GLAMs: 'At no point was the British Library particularly negligent or unprepared. Instead, it was hindered by vulnerabilities shared by the majority of cultural institutions. ...the attack [is] a warning to the whole sector.' informationsecuritybuzz.com/the-cyberatt...

I received mine yesterday. Perfectly timed for Black History Month.